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bbfggg VOL VI WIT AXI) HUMOR- Mrs. Taikalot—What dot* make you talk so much in jour sleep, Jo •eph ? Jostph—Gosh ! It’s the only chance I ever get. —N. \ . 1 ruth. "W . man. ! don’t lUnk he would utterly t at use you.” -•\v. 'it yns about the same ihitfjf.’' ■iLw Well, i j said she was wi-iiug to wait -■: me r.ui i -c-ul-t -upport her V, Y. Dispa'-:?! V -...|j- V \\ hat are YOU se.iiv.. 1 :ti. d.jar ? ii- "I; *—l was just thinking ln*w i use i to sit and ho'd my tisad for an h*ur at a time before we wi-re married. Hew silly you weral Mr Fitts—l wasn’t silly at all. I hr id yaur hand to keep veu away from the p euo.—Comic Cuts. Mr Snaggs- Miss Tst llfield paid you a compliment, last tight. Mr. Van liraaru—What oil she say ? Mr Snaggs—Sli# intimated that you looked like me. Mr. Van Praam—l don’t know w!i“tiler that is a complinient or not. H<>w did she rume to say it? Mr. Snaggs—She did not sav it in so many words but she said you looked like a smart man.—Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph. “Then Miss Newleigh didn’t make a success as a platform speaker?” “Success ? 1 should say not (lot knocked out on her very first speech.’ “What was the matter?” ■‘Luck of common sense. Mad a big crowd of women out to hear her, hut m two minutes she emptied 'he hall.” How did she do it:” •‘Said she was glad to see so large a gathering of plain people.’-—Scot tish Nights. “>lr. Ciubiey,” said Mrs. C, “will you hold the lamp a Ji'ew moments?” “Yes dear; but bear in mind that I'm no “Liberty Enlightening the World.’” “No Clubley. dear,” said Mrs. C sweetly. ‘You could never do that' because you go out every night. ’ — Omaha Herald. Scott’s r? 1 * ¥ A ' • ; ’ f ■ Smith'll - . is mad i\t . - i‘ o t , n r • ! . v < VfTi j.T nc coav. wneic tnc xcpeiuc i.> varying or lacking*, ii in creases f‘> end where is weak, :t a*is it to perform it In vie •: ■ < a more vigorous war. It • ~kes the b od, r. / • 1. a!.i v ilrsh ard cures chc cuttg sand colds by maai-..g it possible f r the body to resist dr ase. Our friends tell us “It Works Wonders” but we never like to over-state the merits of our remedy even when it has been tested and tried for rvertwcr.ty-fiveyears. If you wi 1 ask for it, we will send you a book telling' you m re ab ut the subject than wc can put in a few wards. Go to your druggist fo: Scott’:, Emul sion. Two siren, 50 cts. and $t.QO. SCOTT & BOWNE, New York. wanted 7 an idea of some simple thing to patent? Protect yooridea* : they may bring yon wealth. Write JOHN WEDDEIt- BORN & CO., Patent Attorneys, Washington. D. C., for the.- SI,SOO prire otter. /* R [£ A T SALES prove the great wn* merit of Hood’s Sarsapa ha. Hood’s Sarsaparilla sells because it accomplishes CRE AT CURES. Hon. William J. Bryan trill open his lecture tour in Atlanta, Januaiyj sth. Love, says an Old Nine sage, is an idling of the heart that you can not scratch. The report comes that Msceo has been killed by the Spaniards in Cuba. We don’t believe it. 1i: : o is a famine in India and it is ten ■ . that thousands of poor peo p i writ: starve to death. Schriith lilanton, aged 11, died at Moultrie Monday night from the effect of excessive cigarette smoking' There ate 70,360 postoffices in United States, at and six (times that number of people who want to be postmasters. There is said to be as many as 33 negro lawyers in Chicago. Some of them are ex-slaves, and all of them are doihg moderately well. W. T. Reynolds, a young white man. was run over and) killed by a ! switch engine at tho Central railroad yards at Macon Wednesday, Judging from the number of bank failures*!),! couuimeial failure* re ported since ilia election of McKin ley, there is certainly a mistake abou< confidence ltcing restored and a sweeping tide of prosperity coming. Patronize bom* industries, homo merchants, home 'contractors - It is to your interest to do so. By making your neighbors (prosperous you con tribute just that much to the general presperitv of the community—and, in consequence, to your own. Ma. con News. Major C. T - UictOrt in manager of the State Hotel, at Denison, Texas, wbicli the traveling men say :s one of the best iiotels in that section. Jr speaking of Chamberlain’s Colic, Choi era and Diarrhoea Remedy Major net on says: “I have used it myself for and in my family for several years, and take.pleasure in saying that I con aider it an infa.iiblo cure for diadioea and dysentery - I always reewmend it, arul have frequently administered it to my guest in the hotel, and in every case it has proven itself worthy of un qualified endorsement. lAu - sale by R T. Thompson, Merchant, liomcr Go. Two tramps in a neighboring town bit upon a novel plan to get some whisky. They went into a saloon with a gallon jug and had it filled with liquor'and offered a dollar in payment. Of course, the bartender refused to accept the money and empted the liquor hack into the bar rel and the tramps took the jug and departed. Later they were seen t break 'lie jug over a stone and q. veze out over a pint of liquor from : - -u ■-s which lad bem place I 1 iii'ide. Ex ■ i l\.hsdft is said to be seeking a- -1 to parliament, as a mem b; i •<! • Irish parly. ID is a sup po ter oi Mr. Diiion, and if elected may be expected >o act against the I’arnellites Some members of the liisli parly believe that if elected he w Uhl naemne the dictator of tlie par ti-. His wealth is great and his per sonality is strong. NO CURE—NO PA Y. lie lites two miles from (jillsviile on the Athens and Helton tyad and will come to you if you are not in good health. He will cure \on with j the herbs of the earth. He has cured more than a thousand, in the last two i years, in Hall and adjoining counties, ' most of whom Kid been treated by . other phy.,ic ; ns and Were not bene, titled. I'iin If diseases are treated with great Btie<;"ss. Also Pits, Fevers, i C die, Catarrh and Nervousness and all blued diseases. No charge made f"t consultation or treatment, ( ail on or address, Till. Indian Doctor. Gillsville, ( rii. O-- R F ECT and permanent are the : ■ cures by Hood’s Sarsaparilla, be cause it makes pure, rich, healthy, life and health-giving BLOOD. HOMER, BANKS COUNTY, GEORGIA : DECEMBER 17, !B<K>. Potash is a necessary and important ingredient of complete fer tilizers. Crops of all kinds require a properly balanced manure. The best Fertilizers contain a high percentage of Potash. All about Potash—the results of its use hy actual ex periment on the best farms in the United States—is told in a little hook which we publish and will gladly mail free to any farmer in America who will write for it, GERMAN KALI WORKS, 93 Nassau St., New York. Where Reform Will Do iuost Good.i Women as a class usually succeed with anything the- undertake. Indi vidually some make a ead failure in life, but when they woik all together they generally succeed. If the wom en all over Georgia take the matter of a state reformatory for young crimi nals into their hands, before long we will have one. There are hundreds of good mes ready to back them in th undertaking, and even now many of our legisdatois are looking with fa vor upon the establishment of one. Hut it is not of a state reformatory we iviah to write just now, it is of so etliing which concerns the women more personally. Why do wo need a state reforma tory ? Is it not for want of reforms at home ? Every young criminal in the penitentiaries today reflects upon some home. We hear it said the world is bad It is the homes that make the world. If every home was right the world would be right. Thai is a serious and solemn statement, and siiu possibly which places too much responsibility upon the parents, but we. think not. They have immortal souls in their keeping aud too much cannot be said of the responsibility. M ost, parents think much of the care of the hotly. They see to it that their children are well fed and com foi tsblv clothed. They think some thing of the care of the mind, but very liitlo thought is apparently given iu many families to the. care of the immortal soul. Ii is such a little thing and can’t be seen, people forget a : out it. Parents who don’t like to see thVr children going aoout in shabby clothes how will they feel to see them come before the judgement with shabby souls. The lack of training wo often -e“ in the young is something appal ling Untrained children grow up to lie bad, or to say the least, very indiffrent men and women. If it is Cont act with the world that makes the boys go wrong, what right have they white young to have so much contact r.-illi the world ? If par ents provided entertainments for their children at homo they would not seek it in the world so early. If it was left 'to the children to select their own I food it wouid usually be of a verv un wholesome character, and if it is left to then to find their amusements it will surely be of an evil nature. Many mothers sew arid cook and work for their children all day long but never think it necessary to amine them one half hour. A child bears the in.print of its mother all its life. A lady, speaking of two brothers •she had met who left their faraway Canadian homo when only boys and came south to enter into business, and were thrown most closely with people of a very worldly type, and yet devel into men f such high Christian char acters they had an influence for good upon all around them, said; “f often thought what a good mother they must have had.”—Clarksville Adver tiser. YIRED MOTHER'S find help “ in Hood’s Sarsaparilla, which gives them pure blood, a good appetite and new and needed STRENGTH. THE NORTE ASTERN It is most likely that the General Assembly will pass a bill providing for the sale of the State’s interest in the Northeastern railroad and as Gov ernor Atkinson tn his last message recomeuded such legislation be wil most probably approve the bill. The question that naturally follows is, who will buy the road? Many be iieva that the Richards syndicate will be the purchasers, while others con tend that so far the operations of that particular combination of Eastern capitalist have been of such a charac ter as to lead to the conclusion that their plan of railroad development is wild eotty. We have never seen or heard of any conduct on ihe part of Mr. Hi:hard’,s syndicate that warran ted the latter opinion, bill on the con trary h ive seen evidences of the ut most sincerity in the development, of their projected railroad, (Tennessee, Georgia & Atlauticjas for instance the receipted bills for the advertising ol the application for a charter, the signing of contracts with parties tor the road bed construction an.l vali ens other details incidental to prelim inary railroad building. Then again the Southern Railway Cos. may bcomo a bidder, as the Northeastern is their natural cornice ion with this city. It is rumoied that the ’ Augusta J and Chatanooga projectors and their Illinois Central backers will also be in the market as the road‘fills a part in their program. At any rate they wont bo carted away uni as long as it is operated Athens is apt to enjoy the benefit ot the fa cilities that How therefrom.—Athens Banner. HOW’S THIS! Me offer One Hundred Dollars Re. ward for any case of Catarrh that can n u .in: cured by Hall s Catarili Cure. I‘. J. CHENEY ,V 5 CG. Props - , To ledo, O. We tiie utibei signed have known F. J. Cheoey for the last 15 years, and believe him perfectly honorable in all business transactions and financially able to carry out any obligations made bv their firm. West A T ruax, Whole Druggist, To ledo 0., Walding, Kinnan & Marvin, Wholesale Druggist Toledo, Ohio. Hall’s Catar'h Cure is taken inter nallv, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Sold hy all Druggist. Testimonials free. FUll'l'l I.IZISUS to select for our various soila and crops, to bo usoil in conjunction with these renovating crops and with a judiciously chosen crop rotation, in building up our lands. If we could by judicious man agement and feeding produce all tho manure wo need on our farms, this question would bo forever settled, but this lias been found impossible. Under present conditions the need for commer cial fertilizers is real, but the onoriuous sums spent for this artificial plant food may be considerably reduced, if we ap ply ourselves to more carefully consid ered and more judicious methods. Our great, mistake has been that we havo depended entirely on commercial fer tilizers to supply the gradually dimin ishing fertility of our farms, whereas they should bo regarded and used only as adjuncts to a careful system of ma nuring and rotation. They havo al ways been found to give best results when the soil is well filled with organic matter, and as mentioned before, this condition can be best maintained by a syst< m of green manuring—that is planting leguminous crops, cutting a part for stock feed, and turning under tiio residue for “laud feed.” GENERAL RULES FOR FETILIZINO. In buying our fertilizers, two points should engage our attention and study —the needs of tho laud, and the nods of the crop to be grown. A few of tho most important facts bearing on these two questions aro all that may be at tempted in the limits of this article, but the farmer who interests himself will find that there is a wide field for invest igation, and that the variations of re sults, according to different plans of management, and difference in soils and local conditions, are almost limit less. Asa general rule, however, it will be found that our sandy soils will require all three elements, nitrogen, phosphoric acid and potash, while clay soils usually contain some portions of the mineral elements. A sob rich in humus is some times lacking in the mineral elements. A limestone soil generally contains a good deal of phosphoric acid. Of course the most certain way of finding out what the soil needs is to make the soil itself answer the question by experi menting with different crops and differ ent fertilizers, but as a general rule, farmers are averse to undertaking these experiments,regarding them as too com plicated and too expensive. They have preferred to “trust to luck,” and havo lost thousands of dollars by following one fixed rule of fertilizing for all crops and all lands alike. R. T. Nesbitt, Commissioner. Horse SnfTorlng From Question - . —I have a fine young horso which has lately developed a short wheezing cough, and when driven out of a very slow gait, seems to breathe with diiii nl Iy. ins breathing then being short and fast. What nils him, and what can 1 do to euro him? Answer.— You: - animal undoubtedly is suffering from what is called heaves or broken wind. This disease is caused by ruptured or enlarged air cells of the lungs, and is consequently incurable, as no medical seienco can repair those bursted cells. The best that you can ilo is to lessen the evil, by paying strict attention to the food of the animal. Don’t give large quantities of hay or fouder, but feed liberally of oats with a small quantity of fodder. The idea is to distend the stomach ns little as pas sible, as to do so in such cases is always harmful. Always dampen the oats and fodder before feeding. Bran mashes are also good. By feeding carefully as suggested, the trouble will no to some extent alleviated, and the animal ren dered more serviceable, though you can never hope for a cure.—State Agricult ural Department. Cabb iga J'lu-ita. Question. —Enclosed find some worms and a moth which produces them. The worms have seriously injured our cab bages and turnips, eating off the tops. Please name them and KIV( . a renudy against them. Answer. —The insect is called the Cabbage Plusia. It works groat injury to many garden crops, but especially to cabbages and turnips. The female moth (dark grayju color, with a blight spot near tho middle of each frout wing,) deposits her eggs either singly or in clusters on the upper surface of tho cabbage leaves. Tho eggs soon hatch, and the young worms begin at once to devour the leaves and to boro small, irregular holes in tho cabbage head In this section thoie are several broods of this destructive insect each season. The moths usually fly at night, but may sometimes be seen flitting about during u cloudy day. To get rid of them, dust upon the plants pirothrum, (insect pow der) mixed with throe times its bulk of flour. They may also bo destroyed by spraying with kerosene emulsion.—State Agricultural Department. I'olaouoim riant*. Question. —Are there any plants pois onous to tho human touch? Answer —Fortunately thore aro but few plants that cannot be handled with impunity. The poisoning, or poison oak, a climbing vine, is one of tlieso. Few persons can handle this plant with out finding themselves poisoned, and somo are so susceptible to It that if they evon pass near it they are affected. Thou tliero is tho poison sumac, tho sap of which, getting on the skin, will cause painful blisters. Some varieties of mushrooms are also very poisonous, even to handle and cause death if eaten. There are quite n num ber of plants that are poisonous if eaten, and doubtless many mysterious cases of death among cattlo or horses might he traced to this causo.—State Agricultural Department. Suffered Eighteen Years. I’afns Departed and Sleep Cam©. Mrs. Julia A. Brown, of Covington, Term., whoso husband bus charge of the electric light plant at that place, has been a great sufferer. Her ailments and speedy cure are best described by herself, as follows: "For i years I suffered from nervousness and indigestion. 1 tried every remedy rec ommended by family and friends, but I could get no relief at all. Two years ago, while being treated by three local physi cians. Drs. Barret, Maley and Slierod, they Mas. Julia A. Brown. informed me that I had become dropsical, and that there was little hope for me. I then decided to try Dr. Miles’ Restorative Nervine, I was then unable to get to sleep until well on toward daylight, and during all this time 1 had a deep, heavy pain in my left side. J was most miserable , indeed, but after taking ono-hai/ bottle of the Nervine I could sleep all night just as well as lever did. The Nervin'■ is tho only remedy that gave me any relief whatever. 1 am now welland strong, and 1 thank God every day of rny life for Dr. Miles’ Nervine.” MBS. JULIA A. BROWN. Dr. Miles’ Nervine Is sold on a positlvo guarantee that the first bottle will benefit. All druggists sell it at $1,6 bottles for $6, or It will be sent, prepaid, on receipt of price by the Dr. Miles Medical Go., Elkhart, ind. Dr. Miles’ Nervine R * B *S£sth gyOT WHAT WE SAY, but ■’* what Hood’s Sarsaparilla Does, that Jells the story of its merit and success Remember HOOD’S CURES. TO Young and Old. Rejoice with us in the Discovery. When a man has suffered for years with a weakness that blights his life and robs hint of all that really makes life worth living, if lie can avail him self of a complete cure, why not pos sess the mosu! courage to Mop his own downward course. We will send you by mail, ABSO LUTELY FREE, in plain package, the ALE-POWER FI L DR. HOFI’- JIAN’S VITAL RESTORATIVE TABLETS, with a legal guarantee to permanently cure LOST MANHOOD SELF-ABUSE, SEXUAL WEAK NESS, VARICOCELE, STOPS for ever NIGHT EMISSIONS and unnat ural drains. Returns to former ap pearances emaciated organs. No 0. O. 1). fraud nor recipe de ception. I two could not (lire, wo would not sund our medicine FREE to try, and nay when satisfied. Write today, as this may not appear again. Address WESTERN MEDICINE CO, Kalamazoo, Mich. INCOItFOItATJID \ | 6 If AV 1 | KP.\U>" awry ASS? - -. .< .. .. t .. At J f a:-. . . . J’ l| l/ vsiMuiD-iQ-iv; , : -j /L'ds, till V & Agr w” V.V, r’ and mi wstß h gm M ■ A The Highest Price - .= = World’s Columbiae Exposition^— HAS BEEN AWARDED TO THE Davis Sewing Machine Cos. For He High Grad* Family Sowing Machines. adowcss: Davis Eewihq Machine Cos. BAVTON. OHIO. CHICAGO. ILL. iE’CEIT Im The Atlanta Weekly t u t Great Offer—CiuLbc-.l Witii This Paper for a Nom inal Sum, Can you to jay fix:* t a month* er cue. cut a xveek b;r -bo ■. c\v.- world? Yt. i c..:i r.'d I’. A; V., . Journal for lert ♦Ji t.it!.: ’. 1. j a j or in t • r ..on h. Ti.o \ ••ck]y Jon; n.5 ! -- v l.'-'v • b 4 -y prove , .ii la e n:i-i ? , <.■. '■<> ca p. livo,rican, prcV, ■■.}■ b> and L.mi v .' owspuj c:*, equal K : u..l in t?. 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